ron634876
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Hi,
I've been using Apple Aperture for many years, and with Apple stopping development of Aperture, I'm now looking for another solution.
When I started with Aperture, I compared it against Lightroom. At the time, I actually liked Lightroom better, but I'm a programmer, and I was able to figure out how to access and control Aperture's database via perl scripts, and being able to customize and automate Aperture was the reason I chose it.
My perl scripts can see what photos are in the Aperture library, what projects / folders they are stored in, etc. My scripts can also rearrange the photos and projects inside of Aperture. When I take new photos, my scripts automatically organize and place the photos on disk and in Aperture in the right hierarchy. They also copy the files to my wife's computer and update her Aperture database as well.
Is there anything similar with Lightroom? I've looked around a bit, but all I can find is the ability to create plug-ins via Lua.
Is there any way for a script to query the Lightroom database? Is there any way to have a script tell Lightroom to import photos? Does Lightroom support Applescript?
Thanks for any help, and my apologies if this information is somewhere else. I did spend a bit of time searching around, but I couldn't find anything (which makes me think that I won't be able to do with Lightroom what I want to do).
Ron
I've been using Apple Aperture for many years, and with Apple stopping development of Aperture, I'm now looking for another solution.
When I started with Aperture, I compared it against Lightroom. At the time, I actually liked Lightroom better, but I'm a programmer, and I was able to figure out how to access and control Aperture's database via perl scripts, and being able to customize and automate Aperture was the reason I chose it.
My perl scripts can see what photos are in the Aperture library, what projects / folders they are stored in, etc. My scripts can also rearrange the photos and projects inside of Aperture. When I take new photos, my scripts automatically organize and place the photos on disk and in Aperture in the right hierarchy. They also copy the files to my wife's computer and update her Aperture database as well.
Is there anything similar with Lightroom? I've looked around a bit, but all I can find is the ability to create plug-ins via Lua.
Is there any way for a script to query the Lightroom database? Is there any way to have a script tell Lightroom to import photos? Does Lightroom support Applescript?
Thanks for any help, and my apologies if this information is somewhere else. I did spend a bit of time searching around, but I couldn't find anything (which makes me think that I won't be able to do with Lightroom what I want to do).
Ron